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hunterpayne

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    Comment #49249029

    Napoleon...the answer to this is Napoleon. Also, the odd vs even number thing comes from him too. Pretty weird that the page doesn't mention him at all.

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    Comment #49233813

    She is an out of touch nepo baby. Her policies haven't exactly been big successes. Jobs are leaving and the specific stated reasons usually have to do with her. Because of her tax …

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    Comment #49233719

    The fact that its been verified by multiple sources, including the mayor herself.

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    Comment #49233422

    [flagged]

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    Comment #49233348

    Think about it from the POV of psychology and it will make more sense. She thinks she deserves more status than she has. Other people have more status than her. She doesn't like th…

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    Comment #49233281

    The historian in the article I don't think has a billion dollars either. She still seems pretty inclined to that type of thinking. Lots of cherry-picking and very little data. I th…

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    Comment #49233155

    I think that's true for one specific kind of wealthy person. Specifically those born into it. Its absolutely not true for the self-made. I do have a solution to this. If you haven'…

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    Comment #49233110

    I'm going to assume you mean stole... Correct...and that is why the type of analysis in this interview is useless. The word cherry-picked was invented for this type of thinking. An…

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    Comment #49233080

    Brought to you by Carl's Jr.

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    Comment #49217581

    For reference, Walter Lippmann is the guy from the NYT who covered up the Holodomor in Ukraine (1930s) in the west as well as Stalin's gulags and purges. I wouldn't call him the vo…

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    Comment #49216531

    The job requires 10 years of those technologies ;)

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    Comment #49216526

    So basically any LLM codebase of sufficient size is immediately legacy.

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    Comment #49215442

    Tell that to someone from Oklahoma and be prepared to run. Also, AC is cheap and available everywhere. PS We had bad ice storms where I live (certainly far worse than MS) 2 winters…

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    Comment #49215407

    The brittleness and difficult of writing the code. The extra complexity. The cost of bugs. And ease of creating performance degradations. If you are even asking that question, you …

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    Comment #49215361

    Oh, and post-war British music wouldn't exist without Mississippi. Pink Floyd is literally named after 2 musicians from Mississippi. The Beatles musical style started out by copyin…

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    Comment #49215095

    Mississippi has far better food and better weather so I don't think life is better in the UK. Also, I have no idea where you got the life expectancy number from, but its not curren…

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    Comment #49214983

    Everytime we increase taxes past the optimum point of the Laffer curve, the government takes in less total tax. If you aren't past the optimum point, it won't. And your claims abou…

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    Comment #49214869

    All ML classifiers (and algorithms) have a non-zero false positive rate. Having an error rate is baked into every ML classifier and algorithm. And its always non-zero in practice. …

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    Comment #49213595

    The scientists who worked for the cigarette companies couldn't find a link to cancer. Economists who work in academia can't find working economic policies for the same reason. Priv…

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    Comment #49213396

    This is the difference. This guy took an existing source base, had Claude find specific bugs, then had Claude fix a specific bug which was then reviewed by a person. We also don't …

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    Comment #49213312

    This is the case when you have your own datacenter. This isn't as big a problem in the cloud. There are ways to write licenses that prevent cloud providers from stealing while allo…

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    Comment #49213227

    Its 300x faster for certain tests. I could pretty easily craft tests that do this on two different systems. The author mentioned this when they talked about being able to fit an en…

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    Comment #49213154

    No. This is system code. You let an LLM loose on it, it probably fixed 20 bugs and introduces 200 more plus 5 different performance regressions. In all fairness, your average app p…

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    Comment #49203931

    I'm not the farmer who posted...so no.

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    Comment #49202859

    So just like before the industrial revolution then. Because back then (pre-1750 or so), most goods were made for the wealthy as well.